Stones rock club before tour

For one night only, the Rolling Stones were an up-and-coming band again.

The legendary group rocked a small club in Los Angeles on Saturday night for a minuscule crowd compared with the thousands set to see them launch their “50 and Counting” anniversary tour May 3 at the Staples Center.

The band kicked off Saturday's hush-hush 90-minute concert at the Echoplex in the hip Echo Park neighborhood with “You Got Me Rocking” before catapulting into a mix of new and old material, as well as their bluesy covers of classics from Otis Redding (“That's How Strong My Love Is”), Chuck Berry (“Little Queenie”) and The Temptations (“Just My Imagination”).

“Welcome to Echo Park, a neighborhood that's always coming up – and I'm glad you're here to welcome an up-and-coming band,” lead singer
Mick Jagger joked after the second song of the evening, “Respectable.”

Despite clocking in several decades as a band, Jagger, drummer
Charlie Watts and guitarists
Keith Richards and
Ronnie Wood showed no signs of slowing down.

Tickets to the Echoplex concert were sold earlier in the day for $20 each – a fraction of what tickets to the tour cost.

Jerry Lewis gets big welcome at Tribeca

The Tribeca Film Festival has ended on a royal note with
Jerry Lewis showing up at the 30th anniversary screening of “The King of Comedy.”

The 87-year-old comedian-actor walked out to thunderous applause after the screening Saturday, joining co-star
Robert De Niro and director
Martin Scorsese.

Lewis answered questions about the making of the film and he brought the audience to laughter with a tale about a guy he met on a subway train.

In the movie, Lewis plays a talk show host kidnapped by a deranged comedian played by De Niro.

De Niro founded the festival with producers
Jane Rosenthal and
Craig Hatkoff as a way to rebuild the neighborhood where the World Trade Center fell in the 9/11 attacks.

Mirren reigns at Olivier awards

Helen Mirren was crowned queen of the London stage at the Olivier Awards on Sunday, while the compelling canine-titled teen drama “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” emerged as best in show with seven trophies.

Mirren, 67, was a popular and expected best actress choice for her regal yet vulnerable
Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience,”
Peter Morgan's behind-palace-doors drama about the relationship between Britain's queen and its prime ministers.

The actress, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for playing Britain's monarch in “The Queen,” quipped that it was 87-year-old Elizabeth who deserved an award, “for the most consistent and committed performance of the 20th century, and probably the 21st century.”

Backstage, it turned out she wasn't kidding. Mirren, who has been Olivier-nominated three times before, said that finally winning “doesn't mean that I was the best actor. There were so many incredible performances out there.”

“I was making a joke about the queen winning, but I think actually it is a reflection of the kind of respect the queen is held in,” she said.

Winehouse documentary in works

The director of the award-winning film “Senna” is making a documentary about the late soul singer Amy Winehouse.

Focus Features International says the movie will feature unseen archive footage to tell the story of the art and life of the musician, who died at age 27 in London in 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning.

The Winehouse family said in a statement Thursday that it had been approached with many documentary proposals, but “Senna” director
Asif Kapadia and producer
James Gay-Rees presented a vision that would “look at Amy's story sensitively, honestly and without sensationalizing her.”

“Senna” focused on the life of Brazilian F1 driver Ayrton Senna.

Carville, Matalin to pen joint memoir

James Carville and
Mary Matalin, political rivals and personal bedfellows, are collaborating on a book in which they will again agree to disagree.

The longtime strategists have a deal with Blue Rider Press for a memoir with the working title “You Can Go Home Again.” Officials with Blue Rider, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), told The Associated Press on Thursday that the book is scheduled for release in 2014.

Carville, a Democrat, and Matalin, a Republican, previously worked together on the 1993 release “All's Fair.” Blue Rider is billing them as “the nation's best-known, most annoying, intensely rabid, romantically mismatched, and provocative political couple.”

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